Saturday, April 23, 2005

For those of us who think Indian's are the world's best softwareengineers, heres an eye opener. The ACM (association of computingmachinery) conducted a world level programming competition in whichall universities from around the world took parthttp://icpc.baylor.edu/icpc/Finals/

Now many INdian colleges took part too - but the only 2 in the top 100list were IIT Chennai (62nd position) and IIT Bombay (72). For thoseof our friends in Ontario Canada, one of their colleges kicked butt -the Univ of Waterloo came in third (congrats guys). Iran came 10th.China had many colleges in top 10. Russia ofcourse was the topper.Argentina came 35th, Singapore (Nat Univ) 36th and Bangladesh came in40. Here's the hard truth - We show up on everyone's radar, notbecause of quality, but because of volume. Indian consulting companiescharge dirt low prices and thats how they get projects. Its time wegot our shit straight.

I have been checking your www.sunnetwork.in URL once I sent the mail about the problem. The DMK org was quick to reply and they linked thedmk.org to dmk.in which is fine. Thanks once again for DMK party.. !

I was little disappointed as I did not receive any reply from SUN Network and the same time www.sunnetwork.in was also not functional. Whenever, I see www.sunnetwork.in URL at the end of your program telecasts I got much frustrated as the non-functional web site was being shown without much botheration.

Atlast, NOW it is working and you have made the difference by not just linking to any 'in' domains, it seems the contents are being maintained in the same URL which is really a professional one..

Thanks for doing it.. I am poor guy thinks that I was able to send my views to you !!!!!!!!!! Whether you did read or not I just vent my feeling this way to many orgs and big personalities in the public life..